Conde Nast Traveler Best Hotels 2017

2017 OUR BEEN-THERE, SLEPT-THERE GUIDE TO THE 75 BEST NEW H TELS AND RESORTS
Turn and open the page for all of the winners...followed by reviews and photos that’ll have you booking rooms now.
lettering by DIRK FOWLER
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WHERE
Y U’LL
FIND
UNITED STATES &
CANADA
1. 11 Howard,
New York, N.Y.
2. Ace Hotel New
Orleans, La.
3. Andaz Scottsdale
Resort & Spa, Ariz.
4. The Beekman,
A Thompson Hotel,
New York, N.Y.
5. Brentwood,
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
6. Casa Grande at
Vermejo Park Ranch, N.M.
7. Casa Laguna Hotel &
Spa, Laguna Beach, Calif.
8. The Dewberry
Charleston, S.C.
9. EAST, Miami, Fla.
10. Four Seasons
Resort Lanai, Hawaii
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
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11. Greydon House,
Nantucket, Mass.
12. Hotel Saint George,
Marfa, Tex.
13. Hôtel William Gray,
Montreal, Canada
14. Malibu Beach
Inn, Calif.
15. The Peninsula
Chicago, Ill.
16. The Robey,
Chicago, Ill.
17. Scribner’s Catskill
Lodge, Hunter, N.Y.
18. SingleThread
Farm-Restaurant-Inn,
Sonoma, Calif.
19. Taylor River Lodge,
Crested Butte, Colo.
20. Thompson
Nashville, Tenn.
21. Thompson
Seattle, Wash.
22. Timber Cove
Resort, Sonoma, Calif.
CARIBBEAN &
MEXICO
23. Chablé Resort,
Yucatán, Mexico
24. Hotel Le Toiny,
St. Barts
25. Le Barthélemy Hotel
& Spa, St. Barts
26. Mar Adentro,
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
27. The Other Side,
Bahamas
28. The Shore Club
Turks and Caicos
29. Villa Marie Saint-
Barth, St. Barts
30. Zemi Beach House,
Anguilla
CENTRAL &
SOUTH AMERICA
31. Atemporal-Hotelito
in Lima, Peru
32. Nekupe Sporting
Resort and Retreat,
Nandaime, Nicaragua
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
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$30,263
Nightly rate of the
Suite Impériale, a replica
of Marie Antoinette’s
Versailles bedroom
preserved as a national
monument, at the
Ritz Paris.
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
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A F R I C A
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PARIS IS FOR (HOTEL) LOVERS
Paris has six (count ’em—
six!) properties on the list
this year, only the second
time this has happened.
11%
Portion of properties
we scouted that
made the cut, making
this our most selective
Hot List ever.
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S O U T H
A M E R I C A
OFF THE BEACH
Properties in traditional
sand-and-surf destinations
like Miami, Sicily, Sri Lanka,
St. Barts, Oman, and the
Yucatán are opening
nowhere near the shore.
SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
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map by DIRK FOWLER
illustration BY PAULA CASTRO

ABOUT NEXT YEAR
This is the first time London
did not have a single property
on our Hot List. Expect
it to come back in a big
way (we’re already gaga for
The Ned).
THINK SMALL
More than half of the
hotels on the list this year
have fewer than 50 rooms.
A S I A
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ARABIAN SEA
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74
800
Years in age
of the ikeniwa (pond
garden) at the Four
Seasons Hotel Kyoto.
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INDIAN OCEAN
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86
Number of times our
smallest hotels (28 Kothi,
L’Hôtel Marrakech,
SingleThread, Thanda
Island) could fit into our
largest (Jumeirah Al
Naseem), based on room
count (5:430).
AUSTRALIA

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
EUROPE
33. Casa Bonay,
Barcelona, Spain
34. Ha(a)ïtza,
Pyla-sur-Mer, France
35. Hôtel Panache,
Paris, France
36. Hôtel Saint-Marc,
Paris, France
37. Il Sereno,
Lake Como, Italy
38. Killiehuntly
Farmhouse &
Cottage, Scotland
39. La Granja
Ibiza, Spain
40. Le Saint,
Paris, France
41. Masseria Le
Carrube, Ostuni, Italy
42. Nolinski Paris,
France
43. Palazzo Venart,
Venice, Italy
44. Palé Hall,
Gwynedd, Wales
45. The PIG at Combe,
Devon, England
46. Ritz Paris, France
47. Roch Hôtel & Spa,
Paris, France
48. Sikelia,
Pantelleria, Italy
49. Soho House
Barcelona, Spain
50. Villa La Coste,
Provence, France
51. Villa Pliniana,
Lake Como, Italy
AFRICA & THE
MIDDLE EAST
52. Anantara Al Jabal
Al Akhdar Resort,
Nizwa, Oman
53. andBeyond Matetsi
River Lodge, Zimbabwe
54. Banyan Tree
Tamouda Bay,
Fnideq, Morocco
55. Four Seasons
Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al
Maryah Island, U.A.E.
56. The Highlands,
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
57. Jumeirah Al Naseem,
Dubai, U.A.E.
58. Leeu Estates,
Franschhoek, South Africa
59. L’Hôtel
Marrakech, Morocco
60. Sofitel Tamuda Bay
Beach and Spa Hotel,
M’diq, Morocco
61. Thanda Island, Tanzania
ASIA
62. 28 Kothi, Jaipur, India
63. Amanemu,
Shima, Japan
64. Anantara Peace
Haven Tangalle
Resort, Sri Lanka
65. Chena Huts,
Sri Lanka
66. Four Seasons
Hotel Kyoto, Japan
67. Four Seasons
Private Island Maldives
at Voavah, Baa Atoll,
Maldives
68. Hoshinoya Tokyo,
Japan
69. Katamama,
Bali, Indonesia
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70. KK Beach,
Habaraduwa, Sri Lanka
71. Santani Wellness
Resort & Spa, Kandy
District, Sri Lanka
72. Six Senses Zil
Pasyon, Seychelles
73. The St. Regis
Maldives Vommuli
Resort, Maldives
74. Villa Mahabhirom,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
AUSTRALIA & THE
SOUTH PACIFIC
75. Helena Bay Lodge,
Northland, New Zealand
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NEWTHE
H TELS
THAT WILL SHAPE
WHERE YOU’RE
G ING
AND HOW YOU’RE
TRAVELING
H
T LIST
The day after we put last year’s Hot List to bed,
we began casting a net for this year’s favorites.
We flew a collective 529,500 miles, sausaged
in coach, slept in roughly 200 beds, and had
passports stamped in more than 50 countries
between our team of 60 reporters, editors, and
photographers. And yes, we had our share of
knock-down, drag-out debates that got us from
the 675 contenders we started with to the 75
you see before you. The 2017 Hot List is longer
(by about 25 percent) than in years past, and
contains an arguably wider range of hotels; yet
all passed the ultimate litmus test of whether
they made us giddy. Not just because they have
onsen big enough to swim laps in, the piano
where Rossini composed Tancredi, or Louise
Bourgeois sculptures, but because they helped
us become the kind of travelers we want to
be. They let us explore remote parts of New
Zealand’s Bay of Islands and Nicaragua’s cloud
forests, places that unless you were up for bivouacking
were previously hard to access. They
showed us a side of the Middle East that had
nothing to do with boardrooms or sweating
out a layover on the way to the Maldives, and
they placed us in the middle of the Parisian
neighborhoods that made us feel like we actually
lived there. These 75 are our new go-tos,
recommended to colleagues and friends, and
now to you. We stand behind every single one
of them, and we think you will too.
Photograph by Joe Fletcher/courtesy of Mar Adentro
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0
T LIST
Every year some sort of dog whistle
reaches the gold-cuffed ears of
bohemian nomads, luring them to
laid-back, about-to-crest beaches and
bazaars from Agadir to Tulum. Next
you’ll see those lithe, tanned wanderers
headed across the Yucatán to the 38-
casita Chablé Resort (below), on a
colonial estate near Mérida, where the
cenote-centered spa is the draw. Come
summer, they’ll be at La Granja Ibiza,
on the island’s woodsy north side. At
gyp-set
WHERE YOU’LL FIND THE
this centuries-old farmhouse, with studiously
simple gray paneled walls and
rumpled linens, guests chill by the pool
when they’re not in a shaman session.
Or at Masseria Le Carrube in Puglia: The
pared-down, tufa-and-reclaimed-wood
version of sibling Borgo Egnazia feels like
a private house party with its 19 rooms,
two sleek pools, and all-veg meals served
in a vaulted candlelit room. And when
temperatures dip, it’s off to Katamama on
Bali’s marquee Seminyak Beach, which
has a smart mix of local design and midcentury
flair, and where an in-house
pemangku, or priest, “maintains the spiritual
balance” of the hotel, of course.
GREYDON HOUSE,
NANTUCKET
Design team
Roman and Williams
outfits an 1850s Greek
Revival with Ivory
Coast chieftain chairs,
Les Indiennes
bedding, blue-andwhite
Portuguese
tiles—and not a whale
print in sight.
New properties
on our fave Euroinflected
isle
work two angles.
Le Barthélemy
Hotel & Spa
Clean-lined minimalism
with crisp
white bedding,
mid-century
st. barts face-off
furniture, and
teak shutters
overlooking the
cyan waters of
Grand Cul-de-Sac.
Villa Marie
Saint-Barth
Just inland and
Caribbean chic with
rattan furniture,
ceiling fans, wainscoting,
and pops
of hot pink and
canary yellow.
Photograph by Karyn Millet/courtesy of Chablé
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